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WINE COUNTRY CLASSIC BOATS, INC. Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society, Inc.
 
From the Commodore: IN CASE YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW
As your new Commodore I wanted you to have some background information on myself and our family and to give me a chance to just say “HELLO”!
This December 8th I will turn sixty eight years young and I was retired by Kodak at the end of 2003. The majority of my work life was in sales, sales training and marketing in the graphic arts and printing industry with 26 years at 3M Company and 6 years with Imation prior to my divisions acquisition by Kodak in 2002.
Both Joyce and I were born in Syracuse, NY and now live on (East Lake Road Canandaigua Lake) County Rd. 11 and we have been residents of Rushville, NY for just over 20 years. As many of you know Joyce is the WCCB recording secretary and I have served as a board member as well as having had the responsibility of reporting to you as your outboard chairman. Joyce and I have come to appreciate and enjoy antique and classic boats and have over the past 6 years built up a “FLEET”, not quite a joke, of boats and canoes as well as an antique outboard motor collection. All of this is a relatively new hobby interest and it had to vie for time, money, and space along with or crazy car collection. With all of you we found out quickly that it was not just the boats
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and canoes as well as an antique outboard motor collection. All of this is a relatively new hobby interest and it had to vie for time, money, and space along with or crazy car collection. With all of you we found out quickly that it was not just the boats and cars but as always it is the people that hold the key to the wonderful times and the friendships we have made through our involvement with you. As members of the Porsche Club of America for over forty four years and serving in every position in the Central NY Region of PCA and other organizations we know the disciplines required to serve the membership. Joyce is currently the President of the Central NY Porsche region and will lead that club again in 2008 and I am the Porsche regional historian. Our pledge to you if to serve the membership of WCCB with a total commitment to our posts of Commodore and recording secretary.
Joyce and I burst on the boating scene in the spring of 2002. We then found out that all of you came along for free and our new boating life took off. Through the relentless efforts of Tom and Patty Steele who have been so helpful with their assistance in helping us to find a niche and steering us correctly in the purchase of a number of our boats. With some help of an outboard buddy, introduced to us by Tom Steele, Tom Gretchen from Canandaigua helped us in the purchase of our first boat. This was a twelve foot Elgin outboard runabout sold by Sears and built by the Wagemaker Boat Company (their model designation - Wolverine). It is a 12 ft. dual cockpit 1958 w/rear position steering and molded plywood boat. It is powered by a Mark 30 Mercury motor and the deal included a, like new, trailer. Tom Gretchen also took me to a meeting or two and that was followed by a membership in the Finger Lakes Chapter of the Antique Outboard Motor Club.
The following spring, again with the help of Tom Steele I was able to investigate an all original 1946 CC eighteen foot Deluxe Sportsman Utility with a model K motor and instantly we knew this was the one. Page 3 motor and instantly we knew this was the one. When we got her home we felt like we were in Hog Heaven, you know Moving on up to the East side and in general letting folks know that, “Gladle has arrived”. Now we can join WCCB because we have a CC, and everything will be so cool!
Meanwhile remembering too late that I should never go to an auction alone I also bought a 14’ Canadian cedar strip boat with fiber glass skin made in Quebec by the Roby firm. When I took this boat and trailer home Joyce immediately tried to kill me. Fortunately she is a lousy shot and missed. But now a pattern had started and for me there was no looking back. I had become madly insane about boats and had to have more.
Our first show at Hammondsport was an eye opener for sure with our 18 foot CC. You can imagine how quickly we were made aware if our “show boat” when the judging sheet had eight issues that needed attention and I’m sure we scored way down on the list. We were quickly put on the straight and narrow and suddenly realized we essentially had a darn nice USER BOAT but at the show a definite user. It is 100% and in great condition so now I guess it is up to us to take the boat to the next level! We saw at the Hammondsport show the cream of the crop and that provided with the reason to ask for a cup of black coffee and a piece of humble pie, alamode if you please.
We were awe struck by the triples, doubles, barrel backs, launches, the race boats, canoes and rowboats as well. We had a thing or two to learn and with lots of great advice and help from our wooden friends we have come a long way in a few short years.
That November we attended our first fall work shop and auction and when the gavel came down on a lap-strake 1960 White 17 ½ outboard boat it was suddenly mine. That night Joyce cut the brake line on my “too old” GMC Suburban but the accident was minor and I hardly got a scratch. The addiction continued to fuel itself and with
Page 4 and with some additional freebees and other low, very low, price boats that needed a lot of help, in fact lots and lots of help the fleet grew. In quick succession we suddenly owned a 16ft. Penn Yan, a 16’ Thompson and a 15’ Lyman, all outboards and there were more to come. Then there suddenly appeared a 1960 Mang 12’ 6” shovel nose hydroplane D class (40 cubic in.) in perfect shape.
In particular our 1927 17.5’ Johnson AQUAFLYER runabout built by Dachel-Carter with the matching Johnson 1927 special Aquaflyer motor found favor with many of you and the judging community as well and we now have six first place boat show awards for best preserved outboard boat and motor. This mahogany plank prototype outboard (with recessed transom and hatch cover) is the pride of our fleet.
All of the comments, suggestions and input from so many of you have assisted us on bringing this piece of boating history back to life. We sincerely thank you for that and we also extend our thanks to Doug Nichols and his crew at Nichol’s Restoration. The Aquaflyer was one of two boats we purchased from a great guy, Irwin Leitenberger, the other buy was our award winning 14’ Thompson electric boat, one of ten made in Cortland in 1936.
Our last three boat purchases have brought me/us to an end of my buying madness for some time to come. First was a 20 ft. White lap strake outboard with a 100 horse V-4 Evinrude motor. The next to last was an 18’ 1947 Lyman Islander and lastly a cute little 12’ Peterboro car topper purchased from Bernie Clapp. When finished that little boat and a 5 HP antique motor will be for our grand children to learn safe boating. The name of this little package will be DAS KINDER BOOT.
Now with 14 boats, 2 canoes and 62 antique outboard motors you better believe it’s over for now. Fortunately Joyce is not good with a gun or a knife for that matter and although I live in constant fear of a ghastly end to my life I must now carry on with the added responsibilities of being your Commodore. It is all so settling to know
Page 5 that my two best hobby interests are subject to the dangers of rust and rot. Not very smart, am I?
We would like you to know that we are three dimensional and have a life outside of cars and boats. We love being grandparents, we like antiquing, travel and American and European history as well. Between us we have a myriad of collecting intrests. Joyce has her glass ware, china, horse related items, original & signed art reproductions, as well as a number of original pieces, oriental rugs and her latest finds in early children’s books to name but a few. I love toy cars of any kind and fixed blade and jack knives as well as collectable cameras, auto literature and other ephemeral items dealing with automobiles and their history.
After five years now some or you might recognize the fact that I have had, on rare occasions, brief flashes of absolute brilliance followed by long periods of being virtually brain dead as in a deep mental morass. I am sure that my future exuberant periods will be kept in check by two evil forces from the dark side. One is the WCCB Board of Directors and of course my wife, Joyce “the Killer” Gladle. JUST KIDDING!
To begin with I do believe that our status quo of annual events should quickly come into focus and allow for the opportunity of new ideas and opportunities to be put on the table. Not just to change but perhaps only to modify or improve existing events so we can appeal more to our general membership. I hope to lead the chapter to new levels of increased participation by chapter members and guests at our events. I would appeal to everyone in WCCB to think and re-think what we do as an organization and stir the pot with new ideas and concepts. PLEASE understand that we want you to be involved. The opportunity to listen to you ideas and opinions is what your board wants in general and the time for you to come forward is NOW! Once again we will open up our monthly board meetings and ask the general membership to take a break and join us for a dinner and meeting. I personally invite you to come out and see how the
Page 6 movers and shakers on the board of directors manage the business of WCCB. I will ask for the Board of Directors to assist me in conducting quality meetings with their undivided attention that will allow us all to care for the total needs of our chapter’s membership. We must set new goals to increase membership, improve participation and find new and old ways that always worked to better communicate with you all. One additional issue for me is to see that we all have a fun doing it in 2008. Let’s all work to achieve and enjoy our boating pursuits in 2008. I will give 100%+ to the position I have been assigned to by the board and I will work to see that any and all of your ideas get to the table.
I look forward to the upcoming year and if we meet the goals and targets we establish we will know we achieve success through your approval and attendance at our events. Let’s all roll up our sleeves and go to work for WCCB and together we can “get-er-done”.
Thank you,
Chuck Gladle – WCCB Commodore
Upcoming Events! February 9: Niagara Frontier Winter Workshop (see page 11 for further details!) April 4 –May 31: FLBM exhibit in the Curtiss Museum May 7: Wine Country Open Membership Meeting July 11/12: Adirondack Old Forge Boat Show July 18-20:WCCB Boat Show at Hammondsport July 25-27: Finger Lakes Boat Show August 1-2: Clayton Boat Show August 9/10: FLBM Boat Show August 14-17: Race Boat Show at Clayton September 10-13: WCCB Fall Cruis
Page 7 WCCB Membership Update Information 2008
Name ____________________________________________________________ Spouse___________________________________________________________ Address___________________________________________________________ City __________________________________ State_______ Zip ____________
Summer Address____________________________________________________ City _________________________________ State___________ Zip___________
Summer address valid from (Dates) _______________________________ to ________________________________
E-MAIL____________________________________________________________ Home Phone_______________________________________________________ Work Phone _______________________________________________________ Fax ______________________________________________________________
Check one: Member of Wine Country Only _______________ I joined ACBS also ____________
If you have not sent your membership renewal, please make checks payable to: Wine Country Classic Boats
Send $18 if you wish to only join WCCB If you are not currently an ACBS member, but wish to join ACBS, their dues are $45. Please send $63 if you wish to join both organizations
Please complete form and return to: Dick Newcomb, Membership Chair Wine Country Classic Boats 4579 Dewey Ave Stanley, New York 14561 You can also e-mail the information to:
Please remember to send us any address, telephone or e-mail changes during the year as well. Thank you!
page 8 “THE SECOND TIME AROUND”
Frank Sinatra sang a song with that title and did quite well. I am finishing my second boat but I’m not doing as well as Frank on my “second time around”. I have gone solo on two projects to date and participated at the risk of my own life with our Johnson AquaFlyer at Nichols Restoration, a move I will probably make again after some thought.
Has this work ethic made it any easier for me? NO! No not at all. Oh I am getting better at it and I continue to improve but I have this strange feeling that until you do 10 or 20 or better yet 50 or 100 boats you may become really good at it. It is once again “same old, same old” and so it goes answering the question “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” The answer is “practice, practice, practice”.
Once again I have chosen a White built lap strake boat. This time it is twenty foot long with great beam and ample free board so that “little people” like our grandkids will remain inside the boat, hopefully, and safe. As it is with any lap-strake boat with only a mahogany ¼ deck, bulkhead, trim and seats I have less stain and varnish finishing work to do. Sound’s easy doesn’t it? NOT! Well not for me anyway.
Never the less when you retire you still need to work and be creative or better yet involved in projects. If you do not want to call it work, that dirty four letter word you still need to amuse yourself in some way and indulge ones self in some other avocation to hopefully find a reason for getting up in the morning and achieving something each day. A couch potato I am not. However I tend to fall apart after 6:00 PM and I am in bed by 11:00 or sometimes earlier.
Page 9 The boat was less then 15 miles away from my home and I had knowledge of its existence. I had tried to sell the boat at our fall work shop and auction with a reserve on it of $1,000.00 including a trailer and a 100 hp Evinrude V-4 motor. I made a bid of $900.00 but that is where the bidding stopped. So, no sale! With an assist by Bob Kortz I returned to the home of the owner the following year and offered the same dollars I bid the previous year and this time that price bought the package on the spot. As luck would have it on cleaning and inspecting the entire boat I found her to be very solid and tight and now that I am about 85% done and I have not had to remove or replace one piece of wood. To think that there are boats out there waiting for me or perhaps you to step up to the plate and have at it is to me a wonderful thing.
White built only one model larger and that was the Cabin Cruiser at 21.5 ft. so this 1962 model was built before the Company came unraveled financially due to the aluminum and fiberglass onslaught. Ultimately their business failed and the remaining assets were purchased by the Old Town Canoe Company, the same name as the town in Maine. The time I spent on it while not pleasant was bearable as my new heated work shop was appreciated and I too discovered “FIRE GOOD!”.
The grunt work went well. Each day for a week I came from my new barn shop to the shower to wash of the filth of the day from this long neglected old boat. After a complete Inspection of the boat I began scrapping and sanding and priming and painting coat after coat after coat and guess what? She’s looking pretty good!
Next came the sanding and bleaching and then the staining with brown mahogany (not red this time) and finally coat after coat of high build varnish and then cat after coat of top varnish and guess what? She’s looks really good. The tricky part will be the windshield re-assembly and finally the 100 Page 10 hp V-4 motor and steering controls with all those cables and electrical wires and linkage pieces will need be set up correctly. The name to go on the transom is the GREAT WHITE II. Although I am deeply in this preservation effort to create a great family boat I just may enter it in the Hammondsport boat show for ACBS judging. That’s if I don’t run out of time or money first. Again we expect to have her at the show all gussied up and finished, hopefully, and should anyone like to take a ride in an outboard that can run with the big boys and their inboards with one hundred horses so just ask and Joyce or I and we will be glad to take you out.
We sincerely hope you all enjoyed your day’s at our 25th anniversary boat show and my advice to you is join in and get on the water with us in 2008 and you will find that the work is well worth the effort and the fun then comes for free. So if you can stand the fun and excitement of antique and classic boating we say to you “Welcome Aboard” mate.
Chuck & Joyce Gladle – Members WCCB/ACBS
Mark Your Calendars:
The Annual WCCB Fall Trip will be held on September 10, 11, 12 and 13, 2008. Mark your calendars now, and watch for more information in the January, February 2008 edition of the Vintage Wood!
Page 11 NFACB WINTER ’08 WORKSHOP
Sat., Feb. 9th, from 9 AM to 12 Noon at the newly constructed, Frank Lloyd designed, Fontana Boat House.
Take the Porter Ave. exit off the I-190S expressway. Turn right on Porter Ave., take the first driveway on the right to the West Side Rowing Complex.
This is a NOT TO BE MISSED workshop!!! We will be taking a tour through the 5.5 million dollar boat house that famed architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, originally designed for the University of Wisconsin. That university never built the boat house on their site, but instead, the plans were unearthed and used to build this magnificent structure on the Black Rock.
Presenters will be (not necessarily in this order): Sharon Courtin: Administrator for the boat house construction, she will give a guided tour and talk about how every effort was made to build it to the exact Wright plans.
Craig Thrasher: One of our newest board members will discuss marine fire safety and how it pertains to our classic wooden crafts.
Bob & Terry Weaver: Will get us into Spring (or is that Weaver) Fever when they talk about what’s involved in varnishing a woodie using the roller and tipping off method. They did a stellar job on their double cockpit runabout. Is this just another way to get a mirror finish or a creative way to get your wife in the workshop?
COST: $10. USD, which will include coffee & donuts in the AM. Gourmet sandwiches with beverages served @ noon.
Bring a friend along for all the fun!! See you on the 9th !
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Who do I contact? Wine Country Classic Boat Officers:
Commodore Bernie Burns 607-868-5163 bernieb15625@yahoo.com 1st Vice Commodore Charles Gladle 585-554-6448 gladlec@aol.com 2nd Vice Commodore Mike Yonker 585-289-6831 mayonker@yahoo.com Past Commodore Bill Smith 585-586-0754 wsmith4@rochester.rr.com Treasurer Pam Gratzer 585-721-0949 pam@ARtraining.com Recording Secretary Joyce Gladle 585-554-6448 gladleja@aol.com Corresponding Sec. Kaye Newcomb 585-526-6934 wccbnewsletter@aol.com Directors Kevin Issing 585-554-4505 kdissing@frontiernet.net Terry Holland 315-548-9061 holland1@rochester.rr.com Sally Lathrop 585-967-4210 garwood53@hotmail.com Dana Gersbach 585-289-8674 boathead45@yahoo.com Jim Commisso 607-868-4001 John Frey 607-868-3754 Bill Olmsted 607-868-3590 wdodmd@roadrunner.com Fred Marks 607-276-6468 frmarks@stny.rr.com Nick Watts boatbuilder1986@yahoo.com Ed Wightman 607-868-3025 edwightman@empacc.net Bill Wheeler 585-393-9397 wwwheeler47@yahoo.com Membership
page 8 “THE SECOND TIME AROUND”
Frank Sinatra sang a song with that title and did quite well. I am finishing my second boat but I’m not doing as well as Frank on my “second time around”. I have gone solo on two projects to date and participated at the risk of my own life with our Johnson AquaFlyer at Nichols Restoration, a move I will probably make again after some thought.
Has this work ethic made it any easier for me? NO! No not at all. Oh I am getting better at it and I continue to improve but I have this strange feeling that until you do 10 or 20 or better yet 50 or 100 boats you may become really good at it. It is once again “same old, same old” and so it goes answering the question “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” The answer is “practice, practice, practice”.
Once again I have chosen a White built lap strake boat. This time it is twenty foot long with great beam and ample free board so that “little people” like our grandkids will remain inside the boat, hopefully, and safe. As it is with any lap-strake boat with only a mahogany ¼ deck, bulkhead, trim and seats I have less stain and varnish finishing work to do. Sound’s easy doesn’t it? NOT! Well not for me anyway.
Never the less when you retire you still need to work and be creative or better yet involved in projects. If you do not want to call it work, that dirty four letter word you still need to amuse yourself in some way and indulge ones self in some other avocation to hopefully find a reason for getting up in the morning and achieving something each day. A couch potato I am not. However I tend to fall apart after 6:00 PM and I am in bed by 11:00 or sometimes earlier.
Page 9 The boat was less then 15 miles away from my home and I had knowledge of its existence. I had tried to sell the boat at our fall work shop and auction with a reserve on it of $1,000.00 including a trailer and a 100 hp Evinrude V-4 motor. I made a bid of $900.00 but that is where the bidding stopped. So, no sale! With an assist by Bob Kortz I returned to the home of the owner the following year and offered the same dollars I bid the previous year and this time that price bought the package on the spot. As luck would have it on cleaning and inspecting the entire boat I found her to be very solid and tight and now that I am about 85% done and I have not had to remove or replace one piece of wood. To think that there are boats out there waiting for me or perhaps you to step up to the plate and have at it is to me a wonderful thing.
White built only one model larger and that was the Cabin Cruiser at 21.5 ft. so this 1962 model was built before the Company came unraveled financially due to the aluminum and fiberglass onslaught. Ultimately their business failed and the remaining assets were purchased by the Old Town Canoe Company, the same name as the town in Maine. The time I spent on it while not pleasant was bearable as my new heated work shop was appreciated and I too discovered “FIRE GOOD!”.
The grunt work went well. Each day for a week I came from my new barn shop to the shower to wash of the filth of the day from this long neglected old boat. After a complete Inspection of the boat I began scrapping and sanding and priming and painting coat after coat after coat and guess what? She’s looking pretty good!
Next came the sanding and bleaching and then the staining with brown mahogany (not red this time) and finally coat after coat of high build varnish and then cat after coat of top varnish and guess what? She’s looks really good. The tricky part will be the windshield re-assembly and finally the 100 Page 10 hp V-4 motor and steering controls with all those cables and electrical wires and linkage pieces will need be set up correctly. The name to go on the transom is the GREAT WHITE II. Although I am deeply in this preservation effort to create a great family boat I just may enter it in the Hammondsport boat show for ACBS judging. That’s if I don’t run out of time or money first. Again we expect to have her at the show all gussied up and finished, hopefully, and should anyone like to take a ride in an outboard that can run with the big boys and their inboards with one hundred horses so just ask and Joyce or I and we will be glad to take you out.
We sincerely hope you all enjoyed your day’s at our 25th anniversary boat show and my advice to you is join in and get on the water with us in 2008 and you will find that the work is well worth the effort and the fun then comes for free. So if you can stand the fun and excitement of antique and classic boating we say to you “Welcome Aboard” mate.
Chuck & Joyce Gladle – Members WCCB/ACBS
Mark Your Calendars:
The Annual WCCB Fall Trip will be held on September 10, 11, 12 and 13, 2008. Mark your calendars now, and watch for more information in the January, February 2008 edition of the Vintage Wood!
Page 11 NFACB WINTER ’08 WORKSHOP
Sat., Feb. 9th, from 9 AM to 12 Noon at the newly constructed, Frank Lloyd designed, Fontana Boat House.
Take the Porter Ave. exit off the I-190S expressway. Turn right on Porter Ave., take the first driveway on the right to the West Side Rowing Complex.
This is a NOT TO BE MISSED workshop!!! We will be taking a tour through the 5.5 million dollar boat house that famed architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, originally designed for the University of Wisconsin. That university never built the boat house on their site, but instead, the plans were unearthed and used to build this magnificent structure on the Black Rock.
Presenters will be (not necessarily in this order): Sharon Courtin: Administrator for the boat house construction, she will give a guided tour and talk about how every effort was made to build it to the exact Wright plans.
Craig Thrasher: One of our newest board members will discuss marine fire safety and how it pertains to our classic wooden crafts.
Bob & Terry Weaver: Will get us into Spring (or is that Weaver) Fever when they talk about what’s involved in varnishing a woodie using the roller and tipping off method. They did a stellar job on their double cockpit runabout. Is this just another way to get a mirror finish or a creative way to get your wife in the workshop?
COST: $10. USD, which will include coffee & donuts in the AM. Gourmet sandwiches with beverages served @ noon.
Bring a friend along for all the fun!! See you on the 9th !
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Who do I contact? Wine Country Classic Boat Officers:
Commodore Bernie Burns 607-868-5163 bernieb15625@yahoo.com 1st Vice Commodore Charles Gladle 585-554-6448 gladlec@aol.com 2nd Vice Commodore Mike Yonker 585-289-6831 mayonker@yahoo.com Past Commodore Bill Smith 585-586-0754 wsmith4@rochester.rr.com Treasurer Pam Gratzer 585-721-0949 pam@ARtraining.com Recording Secretary Joyce Gladle 585-554-6448 gladleja@aol.com Corresponding Sec. Kaye Newcomb 585-526-6934 wccbnewsletter@aol.com Directors Kevin Issing 585-554-4505 kdissing@frontiernet.net Terry Holland 315-548-9061 holland1@rochester.rr.com Sally Lathrop 585-967-4210 garwood53@hotmail.com Dana Gersbach 585-289-8674 boathead45@yahoo.com Jim Commisso 607-868-4001 John Frey 607-868-3754 Bill Olmsted 607-868-3590 wdodmd@roadrunner.com Fred Marks 607-276-6468 frmarks@stny.rr.com Nick Watts boatbuilder1986@yahoo.com Ed Wightman 607-868-3025 edwightman@empacc.net Bill Wheeler 585-393-9397 wwwheeler47@yahoo.com Membership Dick Newcomb 585-526-6934 wccbmember@aol.com 2008 Boat Show Dick & Kaye Newcomb 585-526-6934 Web Master Kaye Newcomb 585-526-6934 wccbnewsletter@aol.com
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